Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg made an official announcement today of a significant milestone in the history of the social network. According to Zuckerberg, as of this morning, there are over 1 billion people using Facebook actively each month. Facebook also released some key metrics to go along with its 1 billion monthly active user metric.

Facebook reached 1 billion monthly active users on September 14 at 12:45 PM Pacific time. Facebook says that since the "Like" feature launched in February of 2009, the network has seen over 1.13 trillion likes. The social network has also facilitated 140.3 billion friend connections and has had 219 million photos uploaded.

Facebook says that the photo metric does not include deleted photos. If the number of photos that were deleted is included in the total, it goes to 265 billion.

Facebook data also shows that the average age of a Facebook user is about 22.

The top five countries for users when the social network hit the 1 billion-user mark were Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and the United States.

You actually think 80% of the 1 billion users are US? And you also think non-US are worthless for revenue? Both those things are epically stupid. Even in poor countries they are highly valued for revenue, as they won't be poor in the future and you don't want them to use a rival system.

Did I say something that precluded any of the other classifications from having non-US origins? No.

quote: And you also think non-US are worthless for revenue?

For a US company that has primarily US advertisers, yes. US traffic commands a high premium over non-US traffic including Euro & Asian...although canadian traffic is somewhere in between.

quote: Both those things are epically stupid. Even in poor countries they are highly valued for revenue, as they won't be poor in the future and you don't want them to use a rival system.

You obviously have no idea what you're talking about and you are talking to someone (me) who makes a living from this.

quote: Motoman Well, not to mention that 80% of a billion would be 800 million. Which I believe is more than 2 times the number of people who actually live in the US.

OHHHH YOU GOT ME THERE BRO!!!!

Except, you didn't.

If you go by 30% active users and 1 billion total, you get 300,000,000. Add 20% being non-US and that is 200,000,000 for a total of 500,000,000 - the take-away being that half of the total claimed membership consists of real people, but that doesn't mean 1 account per 1 real person.

There is nothing stopping a person in the US or other country from having 2,3,5 or more 'active' accounts...i.e. one for work, one for family, one for school and one for talking to hoes behind his g/f's back.